On Dec 12, 2007 7:59 AM, Jared Williams jared.williams1@ntlworld.com wrote:
Could always hash the ip address, and display that. It would be completely meaningless outside of wikipedia, so couldn't be tracked back to ISPs or company owner. But the hash would always remain the same for each IP.
The hashing mechanism would have to be kept incredibly secret, and I'm not sure that'd be possible. There are only 4 billion IP addresses. A dictionary attack could probably crack every single address in less than a year, if the hashing algorithm was discovered and took less than 8 milliseconds to run.
And you'd still be linkable to your employer (for instance). Your employer need only make an edit using your work IP to find out what that IP hashes to.